The Emporia Community Foundation (ECF) announced grant awards totaling $13,263.78 to the community from the Sadie Jones Fund. The Sadie Jones Committee recently met to review grant applications and funded the following agencies: Emporia Christian School - $3,863.78; Lord’s Lambs Preschool - $2,400; Chase County Elementary School - $3,500; and Radical Life - $3,000. The fund also provided eyeglasses for an individual.

The ECF fund was created by Sadie Jones who was a schoolteacher in Lyon and Chase Counties up until around 1880. Because she was hard of hearing, she felt the need to help others facing the same challenges. Her fund was established to not only provide vision and hearing assistance, but also to provide funding for health and safety projects for children in Chase and Lyon Count

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